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"We are not put into the world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Inaugural address, October 25, 1902, as president of Princeton University. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 14, p. 170, ed. Arthur S. Link. |
"The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose.... It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Inaugural address, 1913. |
"My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and ... discuss with absolute frankness."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Address, September 9, 1912, to New York Press Club. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 25, p. 119, ed. Arthur S. Link. |
"When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Speech, May 15, 1916, National Press Club, Washington D.C.. |
"He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Address, October 21, 1895, "Princeton in The Nation's Service." The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 10, p. 11, ed. Arthur S. Link. |
"If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. Democratic politician, president. speech, Oct. 24, 1914, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
"I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidently ... simply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Letter, April 13, 1909, to Mary H. P. Hulbert. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 19, p. 151, ed. Arthur S. Link.
Wilson was writing in the midst of his battles with the trustees at Princeton. |
"America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. Democratic politician, president. speech, Jan. 29, 1916, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
"Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Constitutional Government in the United States (1908). The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 18, p. 114, ed. Arthur S. Link. |
"A little group of wilful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Statement, March 4, 1917.
Referring to a successful filibuster against Wilson's bill to arm U.S. merchant ships against German submarine attacks. |
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